Talkin' New York chords by Bob Dylan
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Verse 1
(G major) (C major) (D major) (G major) (C major)
(D major) (G major) Rambling
out of the (C major) wild west
Leav (D major) ing the towns
I love best
Thought I'd seen (G major) some (C major) up
s and (G major) down
(D major) 'Till I come into New York town (G major)
(C major) People going down to
the ground (D major)
Building going up to the sky
(G major) (C major) (D major) (G major)
Verse 2
Wintertime in (C major) New York town
(G major) The wind (D major) blowing snow around
Walk (G major) around with (C major) nowhere to go
(D major) Somebody could freeze right to the bone (G major)
I froze right (C major) to the bone
New (D major) York Times said it was the coldest
winter in seventeen years
I didn't feel so cold then (G major) (C major) (D major)
(G major)
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Verse 3
I swung on to my old (C major) guitar
(D major) Grabbed hold of a subway car
And after a rock (G major) ing, reeling, (C major) rolling ride
I (D major) landed up on the downtown side (G major)
Green (C major) wich Village
(D major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (D major)
(G major)
Verse 4
I walked down there and ended (C major) up
In one (D major) of them coffee-houses
on on the block
Got on (G major) the stage to sing and play
(D major) Man there said, come
back some other day (G major)
You sound like a (C major) hillbilly (D major)
We want folksingers here
(G major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
(G major)
Verse 5
Well, I got a harmonica
job, begun to play
(D major) Blowing my lungs
out for a dollar a day
I blowed in (G major) side
out and upside down
(D major) The man there said he loved
my sound (G major)
He was raving (C major) about he loved my sound (D major)
Dollar a day's worth (G major) (C major)
(D major) (G major) (C major) (D major) (G major)
Verse 6
After weeks and weeks of (D major) hanging (C major) around
I fi (D major) nally got a job in New York town
In a (G major) bigger place, bigger (C major) money (D major) too
Even joined the union and paid my dues (G major)
Now, a very great (D major) man (C major) once said (D major) That some
Verse 7
people rob you with
a fountain pen
It don't (G major) take too (D major) long to find out (E minor)
(D major) Just what he was talking
about (G major)
A lot of people don't have much
(C major) food on their table
But they got a lot (D major) of forks
and knives
And they gotta cut something (G major) (C major)
(G major) (D major) (G major)
Verse 8
So one morning when the (C major) sun was (D major) warm
I rambled out of New York town
(G major) Pulled my cap down over (C major) my eyes
And (D major) heated out for the western skies (G major)
So long New York (C major) (D major)
Outro 1
Howdy, East Orange
(G major) (C major) (D major) (G major) (C major) (D major) (G major)
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